In-Person Class: Colorful Hearts | Positive-Negative Technique in Mixed-Media Watercolor

Using various techniques, learn to make vibrant, mini paintings and greeting cards around the theme of hearts!

Inspired by the freshness and playful energy of Georgia O’Keeffe’s stylized forms, lines, and shapes in watercolor and pastels, this class will explore the medium of watercolor in combination with colorful wax crayons and oil pastels, which can be used as resists.  Through hands-on demonstration and individualized guidance, teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta will also break down the concept of negative-positive painting in wet-on-wet watercolor, which is a technique used to define shapes by painting the background around them. 

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This class is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. Children are welcome to participate alongside their adults.

Space is limited, reservations required. Please email contact@gokm.org or call 505.946.1000 for assistance with event registration. All supplies are included.

About the Instructor:

Sudeshna Sengupta’s career as a teaching artist spans multiple decades, continents, and cultures that inform her pedagogy for decolonizing studio art. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1985 from Visva-Bharati University, founded by the first non-European Nobel Laureate (1913) and humanist poet Rabindranath Tagore.

After teaching art and design at the college level in New Delhi, Seattle, and California, she taught at New Mexico State University-Alamogordo, where she established its first intaglio printmaking studio in 1995. Besides the O’Keeffe Museum, Sengupta teaches credit courses with the School of Art & Design of the Santa Fe Community College.

Her etchings and lithographs from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi have been featured in a landmark exhibition on Women Printmakers of India at the NGMA-New Delhi in India. Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Association Musée d’Art Contemporain, France; Kala Institute, Berkeley, and more.

Sengupta also conducts workshops, short courses, lectures, and community-based art events focusing on multicultural and intercultural experiences that emphasize human, cultural, and environmental connectedness through creativity.

To learn more, please visit notes-and-doodles.com and visit her Instagram @santafe_online_art_studio

Registration:

All supplies are included: Members $35/Non-members $45

Note that all program times are in Mountain Time.

Photo by Sudeshna Sengupta